After much talk about chess, a short switch to another hobby of mine: ebooks. With a jealous eye I always looked at the Kindle page of Amazon. It has by far the widest offer of ebooks. Usually I look around for something new and when I see that a book is available in electronic format, [...]
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Amazon Kindle
Posted in eBooks, tagged DRM, mobipocket on June 22, 2010 |
Last time I looked at the DRM implementation of the secure MobiPocket format. Now it’s time to see how eReader has done the homework. First of all kudos to the Dark Reverser who has written a python script that shows how the DRM protection works (google for eReader2Html). Without him this article wouldn’t have been [...]
Anthology “Other Earths” available soon
Posted in eBooks, Reading, tagged anthology on March 27, 2009 |
Other Earths will be available soon. This is an original anthology of stories about alternate history. Usually I am not a big fan of this stuff but this time it’s different. Among the authors who have contributed are Robert Charles Wilson, Jeff Vandermeer, Gene Wolfe, Alastair Reynolds and Lucius Shepard! This is really exciting. I [...]
eBooks and DRM (2) – Secure Mobipocket Encryption
Posted in eBooks, tagged DRM on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post continues the series that I have started here. Some months ago Dark Reverser published a python script that allows to strip the DRM encryption from a secure Mobipocket ebook. For legal reasons the source code has been removed from the webpage but it’s too late. The knowledge about the encryption algorithm is out [...]
A Better Dictionary in uBook
Posted in eBooks, tagged uBook on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have already mentioned before that my favourite program for reading eBooks on the Pocket PC is uBook. The only disadvantage is that no decent dictionary is available. This was already a problem when I had to purchase books in secure eReader format. Instead of using my already available Pocket Oxford English Dictionary I had [...]
eBooks and DRM (1)
Posted in eBooks, tagged DRM, ereader, lit, mobipocket, pdb, prc on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you read eBooks, you will sooner or later stumble upon the different DRM methods used by the various book formats. The annoying thing is not that the eBook is restricted but that you are forced to use a specific reader. The big question for me as a customer is: is it legal? Am I [...]
